The violence, brutality, and plot twists in On Such a Full Sea reminded me of Wyclef’s and T.I.’s verses on “Slow Down”. In the song they grapple with how to manuver their lives with caution in a state of instability. You can be betrayed at any time, even by those closest to you.
We cry for peace but we live for war
(You know I got that chopper in the Chevy, what it is?)
We ain’t start the wiretaps, down in Baltimore
(But I’m still slangin bricks where I live)
Sometimes she love me, sometimes she love me not
(Doing ten, now my girl turning tricks at the crib)
Bullet take out those eyes, when they in the city Chi’
(Lay it down ASAP or e’rybody getting killed)
Evil lurks, in the heavenly disguise
(Trying to get the root of all evil, ’bout a mill’)
I seen two birds, crash into two New York giants
(Bush still lying, he don’t never keep it real)
I wish Katrina spoke French at the Quarter to New Orleans
(Haha, what you’da told her daddy?)
I woulda spoke French back, seduced her stoned (okay)
Told her “Je t’aime!”, please don’t rain on my people~!
[Hook: Wyclef Jean] + (T.I.)
Where’d the hope go? Where’d the hope go (I don’t know)
I seen the whole world turn into a war zone (what?)
Ain’t no love in the city keep your vest on (that right)
Guns ‘n Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle”
On the flip side she shaking her back side (shake it for me)
That’s the only way tuition gon’ come right
He got a crush on Mary Jean
Unless you got five on she ain’t doing her thang
(Come on, you know you need to)
Slow down, young girl
Keep it real hon, got to keep it real hon
Unless she slow down, somebody gon’ crash